Chess players initiation to shogi

It held saturday the 25 of june, a shogi meeting in Abidjan Cocody Angré, with the Ivory Coast shogijin and the best national chess players. This meeting was the idea of Simplice Armel Degondo, a 2 dan chess player.

Degondo is the best chess player of Ivory coast who take part in many international chess tournaments for Ivory Coast. Recently initiated to shogi, Degondo has been fascinated by this wonderfull game. Amazingly, he played more than hundred games on playok, just some weeks after his initiation. Now he has already played 111 games on 81dojo since he has been initiated one month ago.

27 people came at this meeting. Among them, commandant Diomandé Moustafa, the first president of Ivory coast chess federation; Edoukou Ernest, champion of Ivory Coast in the past...That was a great shogi event. After the initiation, we have both chess and shogi game, and talk about a partnership between chess and shogi players